Aaron Hinke was sentenced to 3 years in prison for placing an improvised bomb behind a La Motte man’s woodshed. The homeowner’s 5-year-old daughter found the “Looney Tunes bomb.”
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Aaron Hinke was sentenced to 3 years in prison for placing an improvised bomb behind a La Motte man’s woodshed. The homeowner’s 5-year-old daughter found the “Looney Tunes bomb.”
A New Mexico man sentenced to two years probation for flying a plane without a license. The plane had engine failure over Iowa and landed near Waterloo.
A Solon man accused of sexually abusing a child and a woman over a period of time has pleaded to lesser charges. He faces up to four years in prison but is asking for a deferred judgment.
Police said Benjamin Brewer, 33, of Cedar Rapids, used a nail gun to rob a man. He faces counts of robbery, assault and criminal mischief.
A judge, following a bench trial in July, found an Iowa City man, who attempted to die by suicide by hitting another car in 2019, guilty of second-degree murder of a Texas man and other charges.
The 7,200-square-foot building houses a new gym and physical training facility, a classroom and a garage that houses the department’s seven police cruisers, an operations trailer, some city vehicles and some other equipment.
A Springville man is back in jail after new arrest for theft and eluding. He has 15 pending charges now in eight different cases.
Jeremy Michael Berg would not put down a knife after being rescued from a fire inside his grandparents’ machine shop. “I think he pushed the limit to get the officers to shoot him,” his mother said.
DES MOINES — A federal judge on Thursday ordered
Police say 44-year-old Nestor Lagunes Dominguez should be considered armed and dangerous. He is accused of shooting and killing Jose Florentino Ramirez Landin Sunday in the 4000 block of 21st Avenue SW.
Protesters demanding University of Iowa administrators kick the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity off campus took to the streets again Wednesday night – this time avoiding vandalism and sticking to chants, marching, and signs carrying the message they won’t stand for sexual violence.
He was converting “fuel filters” into illegal gun silencers.
Police said Kendall C. Johnson, 36, of Cedar Rapids, stabbed a 35-year-old man at least eight times in the neck, torso and extremities during an altercation last week at a residence in northwest Cedar Rapids.
The group claimed in social media promotions that two members of Phi Gamma Delta are “getting away with sexual assault.”
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